World in Focus

January 10, 2013 8:22 PM

An Ultra-orthodox Jewish man walks in the snow in the Mea Shearim religious neighborhood on January 10, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel.

An Ultra-orthodox Jewish man walks in the snow in the Mea Shearim religious neighborhood on January 10, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel.

Photo: Uriel Sinai, Getty Images

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French President Francois Hollande wearing security glasses looks at a technician at work as he visits the Amplitude Systemes plant, specialized in ultrafast diode-pumped solid-state lasers, in Pessac near Bordeaux, in southwestern France, on January 10, 2013. less

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Pakistani police officers and local residents gather at the site of a bomb blast that targeted paramilitary soldiers in a commercial area in Quetta, Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than 40 others, according to police, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 115 people on Thursday in one of the deadliest days in the country in recent years. less

Pakistani police officers and local residents gather at the site of a bomb blast that targeted paramilitary soldiers in a commercial area in Quetta, Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than ... more

Photo: Arshad Butt, Associated Press

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A female member of Venezuela's Bolivarian militia, in uniform with her face painted, holds a flower during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rallied outside his presidential palace Thursday in an exuberant symbolic inauguration for a leader too ill to return home for the real thing. With Chavez out of sight in a Cuban hospital fighting a severe respiratory infection more than a month after cancer surgery, his swearing-in ceremony has been indefinitely postponed, despite opposition complaints. less

A female member of Venezuela's Bolivarian militia, in uniform with her face painted, holds a flower during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ... more

Photo: Ariana Cubillos, Associated Press

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An African lioness --of a group of seven-- remains in a cage in a zoo in Asuncion on January 10, 2013. An environmental district attorney ordered the seizure of the nine Bengala tigers and seven African lions from an Argentine circus, which had been taken to the zoo on August 2012, as they had no sanitary visa to legally enter the country. less

An African lioness --of a group of seven-- remains in a cage in a zoo in Asuncion on January 10, 2013. An environmental district attorney ordered the seizure of the nine Bengala tigers and seven African lions ... more

Photo: Norberto Duarte, AFP/Getty Images

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A woman kisses a portrait of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a meeting outside Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on January 10, 2013. With Chavez ailing and absent, Venezuela's leftist government launches a new presidential term with a display of popular support on the day he was to be inaugurated. The Supreme Court cleared the cancer-stricken president to indefinitely postpone his re-inauguration and said his existing administration could remain in office until he is well enough to take the oath. less

A woman kisses a portrait of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a meeting outside Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on January 10, 2013. With Chavez ailing and absent, Venezuela's leftist ... more

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A man sits in front of a bus that was swept off the road by flooding due to heavy rainfall in the southern Israeli Negev Desert on January 10, 2013. The worst storms in a decade left swathes of Israel and Jordan under a blanket of snow and parts of Lebanon blacked out, bringing misery to a region accustomed to temperate climates. less

A man sits in front of a bus that was swept off the road by flooding due to heavy rainfall in the southern Israeli Negev Desert on January 10, 2013. The worst storms in a decade left swathes of Israel and ... more

Photo: David Buimovitch, AFP/Getty Images

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Parents play with their children at a kid's play area in a shopping mall in Beijing Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. In China, a law that generally limits urban families to having just one child. They grow up as the sole focus of doting parents. How does this affect them? What does it mean to Chinese society if generations of kids are raised this way? Authors of a new study say the one-child policy has significant ramifications for Chinese society. less

Parents play with their children at a kid's play area in a shopping mall in Beijing Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. In China, a law that generally limits urban families to having just one child. They grow up as the ... more

Photo: Alexander F. Yuan, Associated Press

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View of the arrival of Argentina's frigate Libertad in Mar del Plata, 400km south of Buenos Aires, Argentina on January 9, 2013. The Libertad had been detained for two months in Ghana due to a debt the Argentine government holds with a financial fund since they defaulted during an economic crisis in 2001. less

View of the arrival of Argentina's frigate Libertad in Mar del Plata, 400km south of Buenos Aires, Argentina on January 9, 2013. The Libertad had been detained for two months in Ghana due to a debt the ... more

A man walks through tombs covered by snow on the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. Stormy weather conditions continued on Thursday with snow, torrential rains and strong winds across the region. less

A man walks through tombs covered by snow on the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. Stormy weather conditions continued on Thursday with snow, torrential rains and strong winds across the ... more

Photo: Bernat Armangue, Associated Press

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An Indian woman uses a hand pump to during a dense fog along the India-Pakistan border in Suchit-Garh, 36 kms southwest of Jammu on January 10, 2013. The beheading of an Indian soldier may have sparked a war of words between Delhi and Islamabad but the two nuclear rivals are both determined to prevent it from wrecking a fragile peace process. Two Indian soldiers died after a firefight erupted in disputed Kashmir on Tuesday as a patrol moving in fog discovered Pakistani troops about 500 metres (yards) inside Indian territory, according to the Indian army. less

An Indian woman uses a hand pump to during a dense fog along the India-Pakistan border in Suchit-Garh, 36 kms southwest of Jammu on January 10, 2013. The beheading of an Indian soldier may have sparked a war ... more

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Reza Sohrabi, an Iranian man who has been held hostage, alongside 48 other Iranians, by Syrian rebels since early August 2012, hugs his son after arriving at Tehran's Mehrabad airport on January 10, 2013. The rebels agreed to swap the 48 Iranians, described by the Islamic republic as pilgrims but by the rebels and Washington as members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, for more than 2,000 detainees held by the Syrian regime. less

Reza Sohrabi, an Iranian man who has been held hostage, alongside 48 other Iranians, by Syrian rebels since early August 2012, hugs his son after arriving at Tehran's Mehrabad airport on January 10, 2013. The ... more

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A woman runs as police shoot teargas at protesters during the first of a three-day planned demonstration in Lome, Togo. Togolese security forces on January 10 fired tear gas at tyre-burning youths after preventing an opposition march considered illegal in the latest such confrontation ahead of upcoming elections. Opposition groups are calling for the resignation of President Faure Gnassingbe, whose family has been in power for over 40 years. less

A woman runs as police shoot teargas at protesters during the first of a three-day planned demonstration in Lome, Togo. Togolese security forces on January 10 fired tear gas at tyre-burning youths after ... more

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Striking farmworkers try to hide from police behind broken road signs during violent clashes, on January 10, 2012 in de Doorns, a small farming town about 140Km North of Cape Town, South Africa. The farm workers have said that they they will not return to work on the fruit growing region's farms until they receive a daily wage of at least R150($17) per day, which is about double what they currently earn. less

Striking farmworkers try to hide from police behind broken road signs during violent clashes, on January 10, 2012 in de Doorns, a small farming town about 140Km North of Cape Town, South Africa. The farm ... more